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by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | July 22nd, 2015
…Summer is drive-in season, traditionally a time for movies aimed at teens and sensation-seeking adults. Several of notorious producer Albert Zugsmith’s films are now on Blu-ray. The most critically-acclaimed of them, Orson Welles’ masterful “Touch of Evil” (1958), got a U.S. Blu-ray release in April 2014 from Universal. Olive Films released…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 22nd, 2015
…White Cotton, Brown Tobacco, Black Slavery—And Green Free Enterprise DollarsOur ancestors didn’t wait long. Slavery started in Virginia in 1619 and was “legal” in all British colonies to provide labor for tobacco, rice, and indigo plantations in the Western Hemisphere. I guess if slavery is legal the property on which…
by Phil Hunt | Wellness | July 22nd, 2015
…First-annual Wild Goose Chase Mountain Bike Race this Sunday in Gooseberry ParkBesides its natural beauty, there is something perfect and primal about the woods. Many of us spent hours there as kids on our bikes, growing up, risking (and sustaining) injuries. It was a private world that generations of kids…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | July 22nd, 2015
…Here’s something to make you think about how you use social media.On Thursday night last week I found myself talking to a man who told me that I’d made his mother cry.The man was Fargo resident Kirk Ludwig, who found himself the target of hundreds of Facebook comments calling him a…
by Stephen Anderson | Music | July 17th, 2015
…In 2005, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah released its eponymous debut album to an immediate flurry of praise, largely from fawning music bloggers. Self-released, the album was one of the first to demonstrate the power of social media and blogs like Pitchfork to promote unsigned bands. On a break in…
by Chris Hennen | Editorial | July 15th, 2015
…Fargo was in a bit of an uproar this week after a man was allegedly caught taking pictures of kids swimming at Island Park Pool. While he can’t be criminally charged, he was promptly banned by the Fargo Park District from all city parks. Also, Police identified the man and…
by Krissy Ness | Beer Snob | July 15th, 2015
…If you plan on attending the Fargo Street Fair, then don’t skimp on the last day. Enjoy the fair and then shimmy over to the other side of the river into Moorhead’s Davy Park, near Ushers, for the Rare Beer Picnic on Saturday, July 18. The beer will be flowing…
by Krissy Ness | Beer Snob | July 15th, 2015
…Two months ago Kilstone Brewery opened in Fargo. Located on Seventh Street in north Fargo, this brewery is tucked among the many warehouse buildings in an industrial area. The owners of Kilstone Brewery started their business among family and close friends. As a resident of the Fargo-Moorhead area, I think…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | July 15th, 2015
…Disney & Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary PoppinsWed, July 15 to Sat, July 18Wed, July 22 to Sat, July 25Wed, July 29 to Sat, Aug 1Trollwood Performing Arts School, 801 50th Ave S, MoorheadFor its 37th annual summer Mainstage Musical, Trollwood Performing Arts School is presenting Disney & Cameron Mackintosh’s “Mary Poppins,”…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | July 15th, 2015
…Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s adaptation of Jesse Andrews’ popular novel “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” presents delights and dilemmas as it negotiates (and doesn’t negotiate) the rough terrain of terminal illness, race, class and white male privilege via an irresistibly attractive package aimed squarely at the eye and ear of the…